Annual Austrian Event uses HES Products for Charity
SHOWGUN 2.5 and SHOWBEAM 2.5 Illuminate Backyard Party with Rascal Flatts
Road Hog Full Boar Carves Out a Win at Red Bull Crashed IceAnnual Austrian Event uses HES Products for Charity
An annual event in Austria keeps the artists and the audience alike up much of the night. The benefit concert, “Let’s Spend the Night Together,” is held just days before Christmas in the town of Graz. It features the coming together of the theatre, Orpheum Graz, promoter Vojo Concerts and event supplier Preworks to financially help those organizations in need with donations from the show.
Preworks has over the years supplied High End Systems equipment, and because they are an HES Authorized Reseller, they usually can provide the newest technology in the HES line of luminaires and control products available.
For this past event on Dec. 17, LD Rolf Schreiber specified 7 Technospots along with 2 DL.3 Digital Light fixtures and 2 Axon media servers. For control, he chose 2 Road Hog Full Boar consoles with 4 Road Hog Playback Wings.
Schreiber has used the DL.3s before with the same success that he had on this show. “It is always so simple to program the DL3s. When you know how to handle the digital lights, you have always quick, bright looks,” he said.
Preworks’ Video Director Andy Fink supported the show, helping to program the DL.3s and operating some parts of the event. Artists took the stage from 7 pm until 2:30 am. So to keep up with the varied talent, Fink counted on his projection from the DL.3s and Axon media servers as the focal point of the set. He created 4:1 collages, using the two DL.3s and two Axons to merge his content into single, seamless images.
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SHOWGUN 2.5 and SHOWBEAM 2.5 Illuminate Backyard Party with Rascal Flatts
LD Systems uses HES fixtures for annual holiday bash
Stringing lights for the average backyard party doesn’t usually include High End Systems SHOWBEAM 2.5s and SHOWGUN 2.5s with Rascal Flatts as the house band. But for a prominent Texas attorney, it does.
For the 19th year, Houston-based LD Systems has helped set the holiday stage for a Houston lawyer and his wife, whose Christmas parties for their law firm and the legal community have featured concerts from Sting, Bon Jovi, Brooks & Dunn, Dolly Parton, Miley Cyrus and more.
LD Systems’ John Dickson chose 8 SHOWBEAM 2.5 and 8 SHOWGUN 2.5 automated luminaires for this past Dec. 4 event, which drew 7,000 party-goers from the statewide legal community.
“It was a collaboration between myself and the touring LD, Andy Knighton,” Dickson says. “I designed the rig with the understanding that they were bringing in some video elements - an LED wall, LED risers, and so on. He then sent me his festival show file and I cloned my design into his show.”
His directive: “To make it look as big as possible and to complement the video surfaces.”
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Road Hog Full Boar Carves Out a Win at Red Bull Crashed Ice
LD Florian Schreiter Chips Off Programming Time with Wholehog System
Described as a frozen concoction of ice hockey, downhill skating and boardercross, the Red Bull Crashed Ice World Championship race thrilled the crowds in St Paul, MN, on its 2012 seasonal stop. The stage? A 400-meter-long ice track, set up within the city, on which four athletes at a time race to the finish line.
To help control all the frenzied lighting action in the freezing temperatures, LD/Lighting Director Florian Schreiter chooses to use a Road Hog Full Boar console with two Road Hog Playback Wings and one DP8000, with a duplicate backup system, all supplied by event supplier PRG. His assistant is Dietmar Timmer.
Schreiber is responsible for controlling the lighting in various locations: at the entrance to the run, lighting under the track to mark the four race lanes, and audience and TV lighting, along with video servers.
Describing how he set up the Full Boars, he said, “I am running the whole system on one Full Boar with two Road Hog wings and one DP8000, all supplying Art-Net. That includes all lighting and video servers. There is a second system which is a copy of the first running as a full redundant backup system, merged by the PRG 400 series Art-Net/DMX data system as well. The second console uses Hog-Net and works as a focusing client during focusing at different places along the track.”
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